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BY DANA GOLDSTEINWhen Mary Interlandi traveled, shereturned to Brown with armloads of quirkymagazines and newspapers. Noah Fulmer’05, a housemate of Interlandi’s, remem-bered how much the residents ofPlantations House enjoyed the fruits ofInterlandi’s trips. “They were all creative,out-of-the-ordinary, spunky,” he said.
But “creative,” “out-of-the ordinary”and “spunky” might as well have been
used to characterize Interlandi herself. Arising sophomore who died Monday in herhometown of Nashville, Tenn., Interlandi,who was on leave from the University, wasdescribed by friends as a musically-inclined and passionate person withdiverse intellectual interests.
Interlandi was committed to feminism,her friends said, and interested inBuddhism and martial arts. Last semestershe started an informal meditation groupin Plantations House, where she couldoften be heard singing while playing thepiano or practicing her djambe, an Africanhand drum. She expressed herself verbally— through slam poetry — and sometimesphysically, like when she roller-skateddown Thayer Street in the winter dressedin her costume for SexPowerGod.
“She was both so strong and so kind,”said Mikaela Holmes ’05, another ofInterlandi’s housemates. “Pretty muchevery day Mary would say something niceto me when she came by my room. … Whoelse does that?”
Interlandi’s personality shone througheven as she slept. Fulmer rememberedhow soundly Interlandi would sleep on thePlantations House couch, even as all sortsof havoc took place around her. “She hadthis energy, but at the same time, thispeace,” he reflected.
After taking a semester off last spring,Interlandi returned to Brown in the falleager to pursue her interests.
“She was into feminism, but she wastrying to do an independent concentra-
tion called Contemplative Studies,”Holmes said. Even the name of Interlandi’sprospective concentration “was perfect forher,” Holmes added.
“(Interlandi’s death) hit me very hard,”said Director of the Sarah Doyle Women’sCenter Gail Cohee, who taught Interlandiin GN 10: “Introduction to FeministTheory.” “I really liked her and found herto be very thoughtful and interesting. Ialways appreciated how much sheengaged with what we were doing in class.
“She seemed really interested in thebroad range of equity issues and issues ofclass,” Cohee said.
Last spring, Interlandi traveled fromNashville to visit with friends at Brown. “Iremember sitting in this tree with her, inthe middle of the night, talking,” Holmessaid. “We were having this wonderful, life-affirming conversation. … She was just sofull of life and so magical.”
During her semester off last year,Interlandi reported to friends that her timeat home was surprisingly fun and busy.This semester, Interlandi was planning onrelaxing in Nashville and perhaps taking alight course load at Vanderbilt University,friends said.
“She really loved Brown and talkedabout coming back over the summer,” saidStephen Backer ’05.
Three friends who attended high schoolwith Interlandi at the University School inNashville are now at Brown. They often
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BY ZOE RIPPLEDirector Daniel Lindsay and ProducerCody Shearer drove cross-country fromCalifornia to New York City and traveled tothe Middle East in the wake of the terroristattacks of Sept. 11, 2001, taping over 140hours of interview footage.
The end product: “Why U.S.?,” a docu-mentary about the causes of the Sept. 11attacks. The two hosted a screening anddiscussion about the film on Wednesdaynight in Salomon 001.
To make the film, Lindsay and Shearerinterviewed parents of Sept. 11 victims,politicians, professors and scholars fromthe United States and the Middle East, aswell as Muslim radicals and scholars onIslamic law and policy.
Interviewees offered many explana-tions for why the attacks occurred. Somedid not find such an attack surprising,given the United States’ power and visibil-ity in the world.
“Everyone is accountable,” both theUnited States and the Muslim world, forwhat happened on Sept. 11, said Dr. JaneHoll Lute, vice president of the UnitedNations Foundation, in the film.
The United States’ economic status andpolicy in the region, “McWorld culture,”Middle Eastern media portrayal ofAmerica, U.S. foreign policy in the MiddleEast and support of Israel in the face ofIsraeli-Palistinian conflict were also
Thirty-three juniors were recentlyelected into the Rhode Island Alphaof Phi Beta Kappa, a national honorssociety based on grades earned dur-ing the first five semesters at Brown.
Jordan Bleicher ’04, DeirdreBloome ’04, Saswat Bohidar ’04,Alexis Briley ’04, Brookes Brown ’04,Sayumi De Silva ’04, Craig Desjardins’04, Lindsey Doermann ’04, JaredEddy ’04, Angela Feraco ’04, AdamFouse ’04, Jesse Goodman ’04,Stephanie Harris ’04, Ethan Horowitz’04, Andrew Jalil ’04, Ari Johnson ’04,Steven Kaell ’04, Brian Lehpamer ’04,Vanessa Lipschitz ’04, Mallika
BY LOTEM ALMOGWhen Ken Robinson ’91 graduatedfrom Brown, the political world wasnot immediately ready for him.
Eleven years later, he will play acrucial role in the 2004 presidentialcampaign of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.).
Although Robinson said he alwaysknew he wanted to work in politics,his first job after graduation was farfrom the world of primaries andpress conferences.
“Technically, I worked in a liquorstore in Martha’s Vineyard,”Robinson said. “At the time, GeorgeH.W. Bush was president so therewere not many jobs in theDemocratic Party.”
Since then, Robinson has risen inthe political ranks and was recentlynamed director of Kerry’s campaignin New Hampshire.
Now Kerry will face competitionwithin his own party for the nomina-tion. Five other Democrats havealready announced their candida-cies.
For Robinson, who is originallyfrom Massachusetts, the opportuni-ty to direct Kerry’s New Hampshireoperations is a far cry from where hestarted.
After studying history at Brown,and his brief tenure in Martha’sVineyard, Robinson took his firstpolitical job as a field staffer for the1992 presidential campaign of BobKerrey, former Democratic senatorfrom Nebraska.
He also worked on JeanneShaheen’s 1996 gubernatorial cam-paign in New Hampshire beforeserving as the executive director ofthe Democratic Party in that state forfour years. Robinson served in thiscapacity until two weeks ago whenhe assumed his current position withthe Kerry campaign.
Of the thirteen presidential elec-tions held since 1952, when NewHampshire began holding the firstpresidential primary each electionyear, the winning Democrat in NewHampshire has gone on to secure theparty’s nomination seven times.Republican candidates who havewon the New Hampshire primaryhave claimed the nomination 10times.
Robinson will be managing all theday-to-day affairs of the campaign,including hiring a staff and reachingout to activists in the state.
He said he feels Brown helpedprepare him for his political work.
“In the environment at Brown, Ihad a great chance to interact withpeople very different from me fromall different backgrounds — that is
Friends remember student Mary Interlandi as aunique, spunky and passionate individual
Robinson ’91to play crucialrole in 2004campaign
Phi Beta Kappafor class of 2004
Director, producer screen Sept. 11 film
Kerry Miller / Herald
Director Daniel Lindsay discussed his film “Why Us?” at a screening in Salomon.
see INTERLANDI, page 6
see WHY U.S.?, page 4
see ROBINSON, page 4see PBK, page 4
Studies say “raceneutral” entrance doesnot substituteaffirmative actioncampus watch,page 3
Brown is one of fewleading medicalschools in virtualteachingcampus watch, page 3
Majority of collegestudents aren’t satis-fied with the amountof sleep they getpage 5
Bush cannot equateSaddam Husseinwith bin Laden, saysDaniel Widome ’03column, page 11
Women’s track andfield places third inURI invitational lastweekendsports, page 12
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i see dead people.
BY ZOE RIPPLEIn 2005, college applicants will be required to takean updated version of the SAT, but college admis-sion officers are unsure how this change will affectadmissions.
In order to more precisely gauge students’ writingabilities, the SAT verbal section has been revisedand renamed the “critical reading section.” Shortreading passages have replaced the analogies, andthe College Board has added a writing section, withmultiple-choice grammar questions and a 25-minute written essay.
The University of Texas at Austin released a state-ment on Jan. 14, saying the university would requirethe new SAT or the ACT plus the ACT writing sectionfor all applicants for the fall of 2006.
Writing ability “wasn’t being properly testedbefore,” Bruce Walker, director of admission at UTAustin, told The Herald. The new SAT “more rigor-ously tests writing skills.”
“It is important that we let students know earlyabout our writing expectations so they can preparefor this change,” Walker wrote in the Universitystatement. “I fully expect that other major universi-ties in Texas and beyond also will adopt the writingtest as a part of their admissions standards.”
Walker told The Herald he “didn’t know whateffect, early on, the new requirements will have onadmissions.”
Michael Goldberger, director of admission atBrown, met Wednesday with the CampusCommittee on Admission and Financial Aid to dis-cuss the members’ reactions to the changes.
He said by the summer of 2004, Brown admissionpublications will contain information about thechanges.
The committee will also evaluate whether Brownwill continue to require three SAT II tests, andwhether the University will require students whotake the ACT to take the writing section, which isoptional.
see SAT, page 4
College admissionofficers unsure ofchanges to SAT
BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN“Race-neutral” admission policies at public universities inTexas, California and Florida are not an effective substitutefor affirmative action, according to three recent studies byhigher-education experts.
After abolishing affirmative action, all three statesturned to policies that guarantee a place in the public uni-versity system to a top percentage of high school graduates.
In a new report, “Closing the Gap? Admissions andEnrollments at the Texas Public Flagships Before and AfterAffirmative Action,” a team of sociologists analyzed theeffects of Texas’ policy at its two most selective public uni-versities: the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&MUniversity.
In Texas, the top 10 percent of each high school’s gradu-ating class is guaranteed admission to any public universi-ty in the state. Florida and California offer similar policies.
The Bush administration promoted the percentage poli-cies as an alternative to affirmative action in its SupremeCourt amicus brief opposing the University of Michigan’sadmission policy. Bush mentioned the policies in his pub-lic remarks on the case.
“These are race-neutral policies that have led to raciallydiverse student bodies,” the brief read. “The Texas programhas enhanced opportunity and promoted educationaldiversity by any measure.”
But the report, which analyzed data on application,admission and enrollment before and after affirmativeaction was abolished in 1996, claims otherwise.
The report says at Texas A&M the percentage of AfricanAmerican enrollees fell from 3.7 to 2.4. The percentage ofHispanic enrollees fell from 12.6 to 9.2.
At the University of Texas, African American enrollmentfell from 4 percent to 3.3 percent, and the percentage ofHispanic enrollees fell from 15.8 percent to 13.7 percent.
Harvard University’s Civil Rights Project released twostudies this week criticizing Texas’ percentage policy as wellas similar policies in California and Florida.
Marta Tienda, Princeton University professor of sociolo-gy and the lead author of the report, called the 10-percentpolicy “a minimalist approach to (diversity) that builds onsegregation.”
“Race-neutral” admission is no substitutefor affirmative action, according to experts
see ADMISSIONS, page 6
BY JAMAY LIUFirst- and second-year medical students may soon belearning up to 70 percent of their curriculum online, saidStephen Smith, associate dean of the Brown MedicalSchool.
The Medical School is one of six schools in the UnitedStates and 52 schools worldwide that is a partner institu-tion of the International Virtual Medical School, a non-profit, collaborative project that began a little over twoyears ago in Scotland. IVIMEDS aims to redefine medicaleducation by developing an innovative online curricu-lum.
Smith, who is on IVIMEDS’ Executive Committee, saidthe organization’s power will come from “reusable learn-ing objects,” online tools and resources that can beapplied to several disciplines. These RLOs, along withIVIMEDS’ collaborative approach, will allow the projectto succeed where previous online teaching endeavors —such as Columbia University’s for-profit online education
project, which shut down last month — have failed, Smithsaid.
Columbia tried to tackle too much on its own, investingmillions of dollars to create all of the online content itself,only to face an unenthusiastic market and outdated con-tent, Smith said.
“No single school has the financial or human resourcesto develop an entire curriculum,” he said. “But a collabo-ration of schools does.”
There are already large amounts of information avail-able to practicing students and doctors online, and part ofIVIMEDS’ role will be to train students to access the infor-mation, along with providing the RLOs, Smith said.
Smith said he hopes schools from every country in theworld will join IVIMEDS. Eventually, IVIMEDS will set upa foundation to provide the program to developing coun-tries for free, he said.
Brown is one of six medical schools in thecountry to adopt new online curriculum
see IVIMEDS, page 7
not unlike working in politics,”Robinson said.
He also credited his professorsat Brown with challenging himacademically. Although, he said,“I was probably not the mostspectacular student they haveever seen.”
Robinson said he loves thepolitical life despite the longhours and professional demands.He encouraged Brown studentsinterested in politics to talk toanybody they may know whoalready holds a political position.
“One of the things that I didn’tlearn until later is that people inpolitics love to help people whowant to get involved in politics,”Robinson said.
Between the Democratic con-tenders, incumbent PresidentGeorge W. Bush and challengersfrom other parties, there will beample opportunity to getinvolved, Robinson said. “Iencourage any Brown studentinterested in politics to takeadvantage of the coming electioncycle,” he said.
The other Democratic candi-dates who have officially enteredthe race are Gov. Howard Dean of
Vermont, Sen. John Edwards ofNorth Carolina, Rep. RichardGephardt of Missouri, Sen. JoeLieberman of Connecticut andRev. Al Sharpton.
Robinson said Brown studentshave traditionally been veryactive on the campaigns in whichhe has been involved.
In addition to Robinson,Kerry’s press secretary, DavidWade ’96, also graduated fromBrown.
named in the film as possiblefuel for the attacks.
Students had mixed reac-tions to the movie.
“It was a good platform tobring all views together,”Myriem Seabron ’03 said. “But Ididn’t learn anything new.”
One audience member askedwhy only white intervieweeswere represented in the movie.Lindsay said it was only a ques-tion of who he could talk to andwhose responses were relevantand compelling.
Ziad Sergie ’03 said the moviewas “biased,” “lacked subjectiv-ity” and “lacked both depth andscope” in its treatment anddepiction of the Muslim world.
“It didn’t answer the question‘why?’” he said.
Sergie said he is planning an Arabfilm festival a month from now.
Lillian Zhao ’03 helped bringthe film to Brown after seeing itin New York City. She receivedfunding from several differentcampus organizations.
Shearer and Lindsay arescreening the movie at collegecampuses around the country,and hope to show it on nationaltelevision to “create dialogue”about the attacks, Shearer said.
Shearer is a journalist whohelped found the Institute forInternational Mediation andConflict Resolution. Lindsayrecently graduated from theUniversity of Missouri.
Herald staff writer Zoe Ripple ’05can be reached [email protected].
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Robinson
Although the SAT is “not a bigpart of the selection process,” itis “a good tool,” in the admissionprocess, Goldberger said.
The change in the SAT helpsevaluate students’ writing skills,and therefore also “helps addressthe question of how much helppeople are getting in writingtheir college essays,” he said.
Marlyn McGrath Lewis, direc-tor of undergraduate admissionat Harvard University, said it isunclear how the new standardswill affect admission.
“I don’t expect we will usethem any differently,” she said ofthe new SAT scores.
Because of SAT inflation andrestructuring, it is easier than itwas six years ago to get a 1600,McGrath Lewis said. What was a730 on the verbal section sixyears ago is now an 800. Forthese reasons, SAT scores “play arelatively minor role” in the deci-sion-making process, she said.
The College Board has done“extraordinarily” extensiveresearch on the SAT and how tobest improve it to make it a bet-ter measure of students’ abilityand knowledge, McGrath Lewissaid.
Richard C. Atkinson, presidentof the University of California,released a statement saying hewas “delighted” by the changes in
the SAT. “I give enormous credit to the
College Board and to its presi-dent, Gaston Caperton, for thevision they have demonstrated inbringing forward these changesand for their genuine commit-ment to improved educationalattainment in our nation. Theyhave laid the foundation for anew test that will better serve ourstudents and schools,” he said inhis statement.
The College Board committeein charge of making the changesis composed of professional edu-cators, university faculty, admis-sion counselors and high schoolguidance counselors, Walkersaid. Any changes made to theSAT go through “stringent com-mittee processes before anychanges are made,” he said.
The SAT math section has alsobeen revised. The math sectionwill be expanded to test threeyears of math instead of two.
Starting in 2005, the SAT will testgeometry, algebra 1 and algebra2.
Herladn staff writer Zoe Ripple’05 can be reached [email protected]
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SAT
Mendu ’04, Adam Reich ’04,Olivia Rissland ’04, AndrewSakai ’04, Haruyoshi Sakai ’04,Joshua Schulman-Marcus ’04,Joseph Shapiro ’04, KyleShepard ’04, Nicholas Shere’04, David Sobel ’04, SaraTedeschi ’04, Geoffrey Tison’04, William Tucker ’04,Gregory Wyckoff ’04.
Last year 35 juniors wereaccepted to Phi Beta Kappa.
—Herald staff reports
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PBK
Because of SAT inflation and restructuring, it
is easier than it was six years ago to get a
1600, McGrath Lewis said. What was a 730 on
the verbal section six years ago is now an
800. For these reasons, SAT scores “play a rel-
atively minor role” in the decision-making
process, she said.
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BY AKSHAY KRISHNANThe University reduced the number of Providence PoliceDepartment patrols and Sterling Security officers on cam-pus by half last month.
Brown made the cuts with the eventual goal of elimi-nating external security forces on campus, said MichelleNuey, assistant manager for the Department of PublicSafety.
The University hired six Sterling Security officers andrequested two PPD officers in the spring of 2002, after aspate of armed robberies the previous fall, Nuey said.
“The DPS lets the University know when we feel there isa need for extra security and we felt the need at that time,”Nuey said.
Last fall the University hired two more PPD officers,making the total number of external security officers 10,Mark Nickel, director of the Brown news service, told TheHerald.
There will now be three Sterling Security guards andtwo PPD officers on patrol, Nickel said.
The level of crime on the East Side dictates how manySterling and PPD officers the University needs, Nuey said.
“Just as we felt in the spring of 2002 that an additionalsecurity presence was warranted, we now feel with the sig-nificant drop in crime over the last semester, we can elim-inate some of these services,” Nuey said.
Nuey told The Herald DPS plans to eventually phase outthe services of PPD and Sterling completely, but there wasno definite timeline in which this plan would be executed.
Nickel said he felt the increased presence of externalsecurity officers played a significant role in reducing thenumber of criminal incidents last fall.
“With this decline in crime, DPS felt the security situa-tion was under control and recommended that theUniversity reduce the number of external security staffemployed,” Nickel said.
Alan Nissim ’06 said the cutback in security would notpersonally affect him.
“Although the Sterling guys are noticeable outside thelibraries, I personally wonder as to what crime’s going tohappen outside the Rock.
“They are not around when I walk through the MainGreen or somewhere else, so I don’t think their presencemade me feel more secure,” Nissim said.
Melissa Jacoby ’05.5 had a different view.“Sterling guards in their yellow jackets are definitely
noticeable. I think psychologically it made me feel betterwalking down Thayer late at night, knowing there was aguard outside the SciLi or New Dorm.”
Herald staff writer Akshay Krishnan ’04 covers crime. Hecan be reached at [email protected].
BY JOANNE PARKRecent demonstrations protesting possible war withIraq are, for some, a reminder of the antiwar fervor thatswept across campuses during the Vietnam War.
Lecturer in American Civilization Paul Buhle, a mem-ber of Brown Faculty, Alums and Staff Against the War,said Brown’s campus is much more politically activetoday than it ever was during the Vietnam era.
“Brown, in the mid-1960s, was very insular and a veryconservative place, from the administration to the facul-ty to the students,” he said, citing a student’s honors the-sis about campus activism at Brown.
“The student body of 2003 is more idealistic as awhole, more concerned and less self-interested with theglobal crisis,” Buhle said.
He said students today are more eager to participatein a peace movement, and Brown students during the1960s were much more apathetic than Brown studentsof today.
“The turnout to Howard Zinn’s speech last semestersurely exceeded that of any speech at Brown during theVietnam War, which is quite amazing in a pre-war situa-tion,” he said.
After the success of World War II, Americans weremore willing to trust the government during Vietnam,Buhle said. “The war and the Watergate scandal
increased general skepticism toward the U.S. govern-ment,” he said. “Until 1968, at least, popular opinionremained in favor of the war in Vietnam, so by that stan-dard, the antiwar sentiment now is far greater.”
Professor of History Charles Neu teaches a course atBrown on the Vietnam War, which annually attractsabout 300 students. Neu said comparisons between stu-dent protests against the Vietnam War and a war withIraq are premature. “We don’t have a war yet. … Bush hasyet to make his case,” Neu said.
Professor Emeritus of Music David Laurent, a WorldWar II veteran who served in the infantry for five years,said the solution to a war on Iraq relies on internationalcooperation. But he said his personal experiences withwar led him to support peace-centered solutions.Laurent also said it’s too early to make comparisonsbetween the current protests and those in the mid-twen-tieth century because there is currently no war with Iraq.
Though he is aware of the pros and cons of a war withIraq, Laurent said he holds no particular opinion of thecurrent student protests against war. “It doesn’t matterwhether it’s World War II, Vietnam, Korea or the presentsituation — it’s all bad.”
Buhle said it was important to consider the
BY LINDA EVARTSTired? You’re not alone. According to a recent surveyconducted at Seattle Pacific University, 58 percent ofcollege students are not satisfied with the amount ofsleep they get.
Cornell University Professor of Psychology Jim Maas,a sleep researcher, said college-aged people require9.25 hours of sleep each night in order to be fully alertall day, yet his research found the average amount ofsleep for people in this age group was only 6.1 hours.
Maas said chronic sleep deprivation is particularlydangerous in conjunction with the heavy drinkingassociated with the college lifestyle. Maas said alcoholtolerance varies widely according to sleep schedule —one drink consumed after six hours of sleep is equiva-lent to six consumed after eight hours.
“It’s an accident waiting to happen,” Maas said.Maas said sleep deprivation also has repercussions
for athletes in particular. Citing recent studies con-ducted at Harvard University, he said the seventh toeighth hour of consecutive sleep is crucial for coordi-nation.
Maas conceded it is difficult for most college stu-dents to get the recommended 9.25 hours of sleep pernight. He said students experience “delayed-sleepphase,” a resetting of their internal clocks.
“They can sleep, but not until 2 a.m.,” he said.
U. reduces number ofsecurity officers andPPD on campus
see VIETNAM, page 9
Too early to compare Iraq and Vietnam wars
College students don’t sleep enoughI N S O M N I A : j u s t t h e f a c t s
According to Brown clinician and sleep researcher Dr.
Donn Posner, there are a few red flags:
• More than thirty minutes pass before you fall asleep or
you are awake intermittently for more than thirty minutes
during the night.
• You sleep less than 6.5 hours per day.
• You feel groggy and are not alert throughout the day.
Dr. Todd Arnedt, also a Brown sleep clinician, spoke of the
relative ease with which transient insomnia may be treated:
• Sleeping drugs taken for short time periods are non-
addictive and have few side effects.
• Students should avoid exercise, sleep, and alcohol before
bed, and a small snack can be helpful.
• The bed should be for sleeping only. If unable to fall
asleep after fifteen minutes, get out of bed and do some-
thing quiet until sleepy.
• Naps will leave you refreshed, even in ten-minute incre-
ments. In order to be able to sleep at night, however, you
shouldn’t nap for more than 30, or at tops, 45 minutes.
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Tienda said the top Texas uni-versities have preserved diversitythrough active recruitment at eco-nomically disadvantaged schools.These efforts serve as a strategy toincrease racial diversity because“minorities tend to be dispropor-tionately concentrated at the poorschools,” she said.
Focusing solely on class rank“doesn’t approach the effective-ness of affirmative action,” shesaid.
The presidents of both Texasuniversities served on the study’sadvisory committee and werereceptive to its findings, Tiendasaid.
Tienda said she was not con-vinced of the necessity for affir-mative action before conductingthe study, but concluded that theonly way to increase diversity atthe Texas universities is to rein-state affirmative action. “There is
no good substitute for very care-fully delivered affirmative action,”with race as one of many factors,she said.
Director of College AdmissionMichael Goldberger said a race-neutral admission system is inef-fective. “If you’re going to educatepeople for the 21st century … racehas to be a factor,” he said.“There’s just so much to belearned from people and from alldifferent types of people.”
Goldberger said that the top 10percent of students at low-per-forming schools might be ill-pre-pared to benefit from the top uni-versities.
Tienda said other barriers oftenkeep these students from attend-ing. “Many of these low-perform-ing schools with high minorityconcentration … don’t have a tra-dition of college-going,” she said.She noted that admission per-centages increased for studentsfrom a small number of “feederschools” and for students in thesecond 10 percent of their class.
Last week, the student govern-ment at the University of Texas atAustin passed a resolution oppos-ing the 10-percent rule, saying ithas failed to promote racial diver-sity on campus.
Students said the universitysuffered from a lack of diversity. “Ittook me two years until I hadanother black person in my class,”student Joseph Silas told TheDaily Texan.
“People (of color) do not applyhere because they do not want tocome here. They do not feel wel-come,” said Mandy Price, whosponsored the resolution.
Students expressed support forthe University of Michigan in itsSupreme Court case, which willdetermine whether affirmativeaction can return as an option forTexas.
Herald staff writer JuliaZuckerman ’05 edits the campuswatch section. She can be reachedat [email protected].
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visited Interlandi in thePlantations House living room,where the group was referred toas “the Nashville four.”
Friends said Interlandiseemed to have a close relation-ship with her family, includingher two older sisters.
“Her family seemed really
interesting, creative and intelli-gent,” Holmes said. “She had alot of good feelings for them.”
Interlandi’s mother is ateacher at the UniversitySchool, where, Fulmer hadheard, “Everyone growing upwanted to be adopted by theInterlandi family.”
Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein’06 can be reached at [email protected].
Photo courtesy of Pablo Gaston
Mary Interlandi expressed herself through slam poetry, friends said.
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Ronald Harden from theUniversity of Dundee in Scotlandapproached Smith two years ago.Smith said he was skeptical atfirst and only agreed because ofhis respect for Harden. Even withthe novel idea of RLOs, Smithsaid he didn’t see “the glue” thatwould hold it all together — untilhe went on sabbatical last fall andcame up with the idea of a “virtu-al practice.”
With a virtual practice, a med-ical student would log on to hiscomputer and see a list of simu-lated patients scheduled to seehim that day — just as he wouldin a real practice, Smith said.Then the first patient wouldappear in a video image todescribe his situation.
“George Farmer would talkabout how he jabbed a nail in hisleg that day, and an image of the
puncture wound on his leg wouldappear on the screen,” Smithsaid. “Then the student would beasked his concerns, and thusbegins the process of studentlearning.”
Behind each of the 70 patientscreated for the first two years ofmedical school would be a set oflearning objectives, Smith said.For instance, a patient addictedto heroin would ask the studentwhat drug treatment program heshould go to. It would then be thestudent’s job to leave the virtualsetting and enter the real com-munity to research drug pro-grams by visiting sites and inter-viewing directors.
“Hopefully, this will make thestudents excited and give them asense of drama and humanresponsibility,” Smith said.
Smith emphasized that “youcannot learn everything neededto become a doctor online,” andany e-learning must be pairedwith face-to-face learning. Forinstance, physical exams and
medical interviews cannot bedone on a computer, and dis-tance learning students wouldstill have to visit the campus tocomplete the full medical cur-riculum.
As for faculty, they will actmore as coaches and tutors,“rather than the source of all edu-cation,” Smith said. “This wouldtransform teaching and learningin a very progressive way.”
A six-month feasibility studyof the IVIMEDS concept con-cluded last June with 108 repre-sentatives coming from 16 coun-tries to meet at St. AndrewsUniversity in Scotland. Smithsaid the second stage of develop-ment began this month and willlast a year, with objectives includ-ing the establishments of a clear,academic strategy, a reliabledelivery system and a detailedbusiness plan, according to aprogram press release.
Smith said he will present a pro-posal for a pilot program for dis-tance-learning students to the cur-
riculum committee this month.Smith submitted his virtual
practice idea as a possible projectfor students of the EducationalSoftware Seminar class(CS92/ED89) this semester, withthe hopes that they would helphim develop it into a user-friend-ly interface.
Roger Blumberg, who teachesthe course, said Smith’s proposalwas not one of the projects cho-sen by students to undertake.However, Blumberg said hehopes those in the computer sci-ence department with “the inter-est and expertise in educationalcomputing” will find other ways
to be involved with developingIVIMEDS.
Blumberg praised theIVIMEDS concept for aiming tocreate an educational communi-ty among students all over theworld who do not have the tradi-tional sense of community pro-vided by a campus setting. Oncampus, the social experiencesgained from being in a class-room, dormitory or a cafeteriasignificantly enrich the value ofone’s education, he said.
Herald staff writer Jamay Liu ‘05can be reached at [email protected].
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IVIMEDS A patient addicted to heroin would ask the
student what drug treatment program he
should go to. It would then be the student’s
job to leave the virtual setting and enter the
real community to research drug programs.
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with a time of 2:29.71, and rightbehind him was Matt Emond ’04with a time of 2:32.50.
“The attitude of the team onSaturday reflected the attitudethat it’s going to take to scorehigh at Heps as a team,” Buechelsaid.
In the one-mile run there werethree people to score for Brown:Chris Relf ’03 with a time of4:23.05, Imran Ahmad ’04 with atime of 4:23.32 and Tushar Gurjal’06 with a time of 4:27.94.
The jumpers also contributedsome big points to the final tally.Ray Bobrownicki ’06 finished sec-ond in the high jump at 6’5”. Thepole-vaulters took four of the topfive places. Brad Bowery ’03 tookfirst with a jump of 16’10”, AaronSalinger ’04 was second with15’3”, tying for third place wasMike Murray ’06 at a height of14’3.25” and taking fifth placewas Tony Hatala ’05 also with avault of 14’3.25”.
“This meet was concentratingon team score, and I’m proud ofthe vaulters for getting it doneand contributing 27.5 points tothe team’s score,” Bowery said.
The performances of thethrowers weren’t quite wherethey were last week, but they stillmanaged to capture some goodplaces to add to the score. In theshot put, Jake Golenor ’06 camein third place with a throw of47’7”, and close behind him infifth place was David Galzier ’05with a throw of 46’9.5”. In theweight throw, Kent Walls ’06 tookfourth place with a throw of49’10.5”, a personal record forhim.
“(Walls) just keeps comingalong each week. He had anothergood performance in the weight,”Johnson said.
In the speed events there werea number of strong performanc-es. Brandon Buchanan ’03 camein fourth in the 55-meter dashwith a time of 6.58. Phil Sardis ’04had a big race, capturing first
place in the 200-meter dash witha time of 22.44.
“The sprinters really cametogether this meet, and that’s thefirst time this year I’ve seen thathappen,” Sardis said.
Also scoring in the 200 wasSteve Marino ’03 with a fifth-place finish and a time of 22.74.Another first-place finish camefrom tri-captain David Owen ’04,who won the 400-meter dashwith a time of 50.14.
“This win was very importantfor the team — it provided amorale boost that should give usconfidence through the next cou-ple weeks,” Owen said.
In an exciting finale, with theoutcome of the meet dependingon it, both the 4 x 800-meter relayand 4 x 400-meter relay teamspulled out first place finishes.
“At the end everyone ran with alot of heart and desire. We knewthat we needed both relays to winthe meet,” Buechel said. The 4 x800-meter team had a time of7:58.88 and the 4 x 400-meterteam had a time of 3:22.21.
“At this point in the season weneed to start to look at perform-ances. The coaches are going tostart to give them a bit of a break,pulling off the work load. In thenext couple of weeks we canexpect to see big performancesfrom the majority of the team,”Johnson said.
The team will be splitting upthis coming weekend, with somegoing to New York to compete inthe Armory CollegiateInvitational and some travelingto Boston for the Fast TrackInvitational.
Sports staff writer JoannaGrossman ’03 covers the men’sindoor track team. She can bereached at [email protected].
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M. track The jumpers also
contributed some
big points to the
final tally.
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and Jennifer Donahue ’05 fin-ished fourth and eighth, respec-tively, in the 20-pound weightthrow.
Rounding out the meet werethe relay races. In a controversialdecision by the meet officialsregarding official uniforms, the 4x 400-meter relay was disquali-fied after fighting to a photo fin-ish of either first or second place.The “B” Distance Medley Relayfinished in third place and the “A”DMR team finished in fourthplace.
“In many ways it seems to methat we have moved forward
since the last couple of meets andare collecting the momentum weneed to be a championshipteam,” Devanthery said. “Theteam as a whole was more pres-ent and focused than it has beenall year. A lot of people emergedwith great performances andcompetitive fire.”
The women are now beginningtheir peak training phase inpreparation for the Ivy LeagueChampionships that will takeplace the first weekend in March.The level of speed continues toincrease, with the team splittingup and traveling over Valentine’sDay weekend to compete ineither the Armory CollegiateMeet in New York or the FastTrack Invitational in Boston.
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wore on the runway appreciat-ed the support, and the poten-tial suicide goats of Palestineare eternally grateful, but whynot save a happy breed of ani-mals from the monotony ofwalking around in circles?Maybe they would still do that,but they should at least givethe dogs a pass to Supercuts sothey don’t look like Don King.
So now that the show isfinally over, I guess I’ll have tocontain my excitement untilnext year when I hope to showmy giant schnauzer.
Ian Cropp ’05 hails fromBuffalo, N.Y. and believes “Bestin Show” was robbed of anOscar.
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Providence community, whenexamining the campus activism atBrown during the 1960s and thepresent situation. “Communitysentiment, around and encour-aged by the November electionresults in Providence, have anenormous impact upon the cam-pus-at-large peace movement,” hesaid.
“Today’s constituency … is vast-ly more peace-oriented than thatof Providence 30-some years ago.”Buhle called Rhode Island a “labo-ratory” for people participating inpolitical activities.
“In short, the peace movementhas a wonderful opportunity hereto convince ordinary RhodeIslanders that the war is, from anypoint of view, a dreadful error,” hesaid.
“My cousin went to Vietnam, asdid many of my friends; all of themfelt betrayed, not by peace demon-strators, but by the administrationand Congress. We have no reasonto change our minds,” he said.
Herald staff writer Joanne Park’06 can be reached [email protected].
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Vietnam “In short, the peace
movement has a
wonderful opportu-
nity here.”
The Medical School’s recent involvement in the virtualteaching organization — IVIMED — is a bold steptoward using technology to the benefit of med stu-dents.
Associate Dean of the Medical School StephenSmith’s proposal to practice diagnoses of patientsonline can serve as a stepping stone for first- and sec-ond- year med students between heavy studying andhospital training.
And even once med students begin their in-hospitaltraining, they are often limited in experience by whowalks through the hospital doors. Students may notencounter many rare diseases or unusual scenariosduring the few years of their education, only to be con-fronted with them when they’re the ones making thecalls. Online work can help remedy this problem,because virtual patients have the capability to simulatea variety of conditions.
But, as Smith cautioned, not everything can belearned online. Virtual training will never replace thespontaneity or pressure of a real-world clinical envi-ronment.
Even more importantly, technological advancementsshould never cause med students to underestimate theimportance of human contact in medicine. Doctorstreat a person, not just a disease, we are always told,and professors should be careful that students don’tneglect this important interaction.
Ultimately, a balance of innovative technology andface-to-face contact — as Smith is proposing — willbenefit the numerous aspiring doctors at Brown. And,more importantly, the patients they will someday treat.
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Herald misquotesHanney in bannertheft story
To the Editor:
In response to Mr. Kabala’s letter (“Blood driveorganizer unfairly criticizes other schools,” Feb. 7),I wish to clarify a statement that was taken out ofcontext. I apologize if anyone was offended by thestatement that was printed concerning the theft ofthe blood center’s banner. However, I want you toknow that what was stated in the article was notexactly said by me.
On Thursday, after reading the article (and themisquote), I decided to just “let it go” and not writeback. However, after reading Mr. Kabala’s letter, Idecided I should write to clarify what was reallysaid.
When questioned by the reporter, I was asked if atheft of a banner had ever happened before. I said,“yes, last year at PC, and in broad daylight.” I then
stated that “I did not expect this to happen atBrown.” Whereas I was surprised of the theft atBrown, in no way did I mean, nor say, that I expect-ed it to happen at PC.
The blood drives at PC are very successful, as arethe Brown University drives. We value both, and all,colleges and universities. As a non-profit organiza-tion with the goal of saving lives, we do not look“down our noses” at any blood drive site. WhereasBrown’s blood drives are very successful, we havethe need to collect blood on a daily basis, not just 5times per year. Therefore, we cannot and will notjudge any sponsor to be inadequate.
The statements about the ROTC have absolutelynothing to do with the Blood Center, myself, or thetheft. Honestly, I do not understand why it waseven mentioned.
Regardless of the theft, I want to thank all donorsfor helping us collect 244 pints of blood last week.You are very kind.
Peter HanneyRI Blood Center
Feb. 7
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COLIN POWELL, GEORGE BUSH ANDTony Blair are holding a sign that says“We will invade Iraq” and with the recentslate of Osama tapes, there seems littledoubt they’ll get their smoking gun. TheUnited Nations can’t delay for muchlonger — the purpose of the inspectionswas to kill time even as weknew Iraq was hiding some-thing and wouldn’t comply.Soon the hawks will win out.The coming war will bebrutish and short.
By going the U.N. route,Bush has been tactful and persistent inpursuing the case of war against Iraq. Eventhose who oppose war believe thatSaddam is developing nuclear weapons,they just disagree about a date.
To prevent a diplomatic failure on thelevel of North Korea, where in the event ofmilitary action the number of casualtiesinvolved would be astronomical, disar-mament of Iraq makes sense. Troops aremassing and soon the brutal Husseinregime will have no allies except the ter-rorist groups they aided.
At that time the left will have to makea choice it has not made since theMarshall Plan revitalized Europe afterWorld War II. The left can continue itspresent course, and continue thinkinglike isolationists, believing the ancientcry that America the superpower is
inherently destructive.Or they can police the reformation and
reconstruction of the Islamic world byadvocating economic aid and influencingthe United Nations. For those whom theNew York Times’ Bill Keller calls liberalhawks, Kosovo was a turning point in
terms of the success theUnited States could have withmilitary intervention. The leftshould take advantage of thisopportunity to create a globalframework led by the UnitedStates in word and deed.
Doing so would include encouragingthe development of democratic govern-ment in Iraq after a transitional rule by amilitary dictatorship. It would inevitablybe financed better than the reconstruc-tion of Afghanistan for one simple rea-son: There are no Afghan oil fields.Naturally, the responsibilities we wouldhave in rebuilding Iraq would be bettershared with the entire world, but for nowit appears France and Germany caremore about their oil contracts than glob-al security.
On this campus the left has main-tained a lazy dominance that will die orexplode come the spring. I encourageyou all not to get caught up in the slanderbeing thrown at George Bush. Just likeClinton was hated, Bush is hated. Theone small difference is that neo-conser-vatives bashed Clinton for being toosmart for his own good. They neverunderestimated his political skill, the wayliberals underestimate Bush.
They can also stop calling SecretaryPowell “a token soldier” or any of the
other disgusting epithets in the mediarecently. He’s the Secretary of State, andhis record on Iraq is one of peace and cau-tion. Without his influence we wouldalready be at war. The left would do wellto ask itself what exactly it detests somuch about Colin Powell — is it that hehas shown on the issues of Iraq and affir-mative action that the Bush administra-tion isn’t as homogenous as liberals think?Or is it simply that he’s black?
Liberals who argue that the conflict willexacerbate the Israeli-Palestinian conflictignore that peace talks began in earnestshortly after the Gulf War. Followingregime change, the international commu-nity from the left could increase the possi-bility of Palestinian reform and pressureSharon to make concessions. The successof the Quartet will depend on whether lib-erals can encourage Bush to abandon hisblind support of Sharon’s hard line poli-cies. Instead of idle complaints, the Leftcan prepare to make diplomacy a moreuseful tool in this region after the conflictwith Iraq is over.
Furthermore, they can take Bush upon his promise to fight the deadly spreadof AIDS in Africa. It pains me to watchdevoted activists march in support of one
of the most corrupt dictators the worldhas ever seen while our governmentrefuses to address the biggest humanhealth crisis since the Black Plague.
Now that the U.N. path has beenexhausted, we must examine ouroptions. The Euro-doves, Chirac andSchröder, advocate postponement,thinking exile or a return to a contain-ment policy will be an acceptable substi-tute for war. Listening to the rhetoric ofthe Bush administration, it is difficult tothink this is a possibility.
But the reasons to support the war arejust too many. In North Korea a parallelsituation in which the development ofnuclear weapons and the understoodthreat of a semi-mutually assureddestruction has sentenced the NorthKorean people to life under a corrupt,sadistic dictatorship. Iraq must notbecome another North Korea simplybecause France and Germany are follow-ing their own increasingly irrelevantinterests. But their stance is moot, and itis not they who need convincing. Thetrue test will be if we can convince theArab Street that we are willing to fundand implement costly reform as easily aswe call for war.
Campus liberals should take the lead in laying the groundwork for needed postwar changes
ALEX CARNEVALE
GUESTCOLUMNIST
Left is rapidly losing relevance in the war against Bush
Linking al-Qaida to Iraq is duplicitous Bush administration struggles to justify attack while Osama runs free
IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE EVIDENCEyou need, take it wherever you can find it.The Bush administration, opportunisticand eager to make the case for invadingIraq, seems to have embraced this tenetwith gusto. Let there be no mistake: TheUnited States will attack Iraq,regardless of a U.N. resolution,NATO support, or public opin-ion. Some will claim the war isfor weapons of mass destruc-tion (WMD); others will claimit is for human rights; still oth-ers will claim it is for oil. But to justify warwith a supposed link to al-Qaida andOsama bin Laden is baseless, misleadingand dangerous.
Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida have beenrightfully decried as genuine enemies ofthe United States. But somewhere alongthe way — perhaps in the vicinity of Bush’s2002 “axis of evil” State of the Unionaddress — the focus of U.S. anger andresolve shifted. The shift was away from ademonstrated threat to the United States(bin Laden and al-Qaida) and toward a tar-get unquestionably “evil” but less clearly athreat (Saddam Hussein and Iraq). Thisnew threat possessed and sought WMD,and that was bad. This new threatoppressed its citizens, and that was bad.Oh, and by the way, this new threat was
behind the Sept. 11 attacks.Rational observers paused. What of bin
Laden and al Qaida, Mohammad Atta andthe 18 other hijackers, they asked. Well, asit turned out, Atta had met with an Iraqiintelligence agent in April 2001 in Prague.
Thus, naturally, Iraq wasbehind Sept. 11, and certaincolumnists delighted inreminding us of this “fact.” Thisdelight quickly subsided, how-ever, by October 2002 when aCzech intelligence official stat-
ed, “quite simply, we think the source forthis story may have invented the meeting[between Atta and the Iraqi intelligenceagent].” In other words, oops.
In recent months, the Bush administra-tion has emphasized the presence of Ansaral-Islam — a militant Islamist group withpossible ties to al-Qaida — in Iraq. Clearevidence proves that Ansar al-Islam doesindeed have a camp within Iraqi borders.The problem is that the camp is inKurdish-controlled territory in northernIraq, protected by U.S. aircraft patrollingoverhead. While a serious thorn in the sideof the de facto Kurdish authority in theregion, Ansar al-Islam does not owe itsprotection to the Iraqi government.Saddam could neither support nor expelAnsar al-Islam, even if he wanted to.
On Feb. 11, al Jazeera broadcast the lat-est audio tape attributed to bin Laden, anattribution early analysis appeared to con-firm. Bin Laden extols Muslims to “fight(the) despots” who are about to “launch
war on the former capital of Muslims (i.e.Baghdad) and to install a puppet govern-ment.” He offers practical suggestions tohis “mujahideen brothers in Iraq” on howto defend against U.S. invasion: “dig manytrenches … (lure) enemy forces into a pro-tracted, close and exhausting fight.” Hefurther warns, “All those who cooperatewith the Americans against Iraq are hostileto Islam.” How convenient. The vital linkbetween Sept. 11 and Iraq is finally made,proving, in the words of a Bush adminis-tration official, a “burgeoning alliance ofterror.”
This would be of some comfort, per-haps, if it were true. In fact, all that hasbeen amply demonstrated by this state-ment is bin Laden’s wiliness. The notion ofan “alliance” between bin Laden andHussein is an unlikely one. Bin Laden’sideology is founded upon radical Islam;Hussein’s is founded upon himself.Unable to completely ignore this, binLaden lumps Saddam’s secular govern-ment with other distasteful regimes inSaudi Arabia and Pakistan and labelsthem as “socialist.” But one must remem-ber bin Laden’s original grievance againstsuch governments. Generally, bin Ladenderides such governments’ lack of appro-priate religiosity, and specifically, hedecries the presence of U.S. troops inSaudi Arabia. And what would a U.S. warin Iraq entail? Massive numbers of U.S.troops in Saudi Arabia and other Muslimstates would be only the beginning. Theinevitable television images of Muslim
refugees and civilian casualties, courtesyof the U.S. military, will follow. Ultimately,a U.S. general will be in charge of a coun-try of 24 million Muslims. Bin Laden him-self could not devise a more effectiverecruitment strategy to fill al-Qaida’sranks, and to distract the U.S. military.And now, when he notices the Bushadministration struggle to make its caseto invade Iraq, he is so good as to providea helpful nudge in the form of this audiotape. The Bush administration happilyobliges.
Saddam Hussein is a cruel, dangerous,and egomaniacal dictator. He probablyhas chemical and biological weapons andwould surely jump at the chance toacquire nuclear weapons. I have littledoubt that he is withholding informationand concealing evidence from U.N.weapons inspectors. The Iraqis who liveunder him are impoverished, oppressedand bitter, a condition only made worse bySaddam’s selfish manipulation of years ofU.N. sanctions, economic and otherwise.But to claim that Saddam is in league withbin Laden is founded upon circumstantialevidence, argued by those whose mindshave already been set, and corroboratedby a man who is a genuine menace to theUnited States, and indeed, to liberal socie-ty worldwide. On the day U.S. troopsmarch triumphantly into the Iraqi capital,the loudest cheers will not come from thestreets of Baghdad. They will come froman anonymous cave somewhere in north-western Pakistan.
Daniel Widome ‘03 is editor emeritus ofthe Brown Journal of World Affairs.
Alex Carnevale ‘05 is to Post- what SaddamHussein is to Iraq — an angry, cigar-smok-ing dictator with lots of lackeys.
DANIEL WIDOME
GUEST COLUMNIST
On this campus the left has maintained a lazy domi-
nance that will die or explode come the spring. I encour-
age you all not to get caught up in the slander being
thrown at George Bush.
TWO NIGHTS AGO, IN ONE OF THE MOSTlong-standing and highly touted competi-tions, a champion was crowned. The win-ner did not respond with extreme jubila-tion, nor even with a few tears of joy, but bysniffing another competitor’s butt. Whowould have the gall to act so inappropri-
ately in public?Well, none otherthan Ch Torum’sScarf Michael, a six-year-old English-bred Kerry blue ter-rier, and the winnerof the 127thW e s t m i n s t e rKennel Club DogShow.
This year’s win-ner, favored byinsiders to win theprevious year but
who lost in the final round, carried himselfmuch better this time around. Frank Litskyof the New York Times described Mick (thedog’s actual “dog” name) as haughty andalmost a showoff, in contrast with lastyear’s performance when he was feisty,excitable and almost out of control. Thelast time I checked, dogs are by naturefeisty and excitable and will be that wayunless given heavy amounts of Thorazine.I can’t really see a dog doing a MuhammadAli impression, but I’ll take Frank Litsky’sword for it.
Although it took judge Irene Bivin only17 minutes to decide on the winner, sheclaimed she could not recall seeing asmany good dogs in the final round. How ittook her more than 17 seconds, I will neverknow, but I’m glad she made the obviouslycorrect decision.
I’m sure not too many people watchedthis year’s show, instead partaking of moreenlightening activities, like watching “JoeMillionaire.” Well, don’t worry — you didn’tmiss out at all. The only entertaining thingabout dog shows are the people who trainand show their dogs. If you feel like youmissed out, just take a walk in a park andyou’ll see the same thing.
As much as I did not like the show, Ihave to say that it reminds me a lot of a“show” humans often rave about. You maythink there is no equivalent to theWestminster Dog Show — a show in whichcompetitors are judged based on physicalappearance and trained responses. Guessagain. Here she comes, Miss America.Okay, so they aren’t exactly the same. Imean, dog shows objectify dog’s bodies,and then take the crown back when thedogs pose for pictures sans clothing, whilethe Miss America pageant does nothing ofthe sort.
Like most people, I know next to noth-ing about showing dogs, other than thefact that you shouldn’t feed them foot-longhot dogs before driving them to a contestin a Sheepdog van. While I’m not a dog, Ican say with a good amount of certaintythat being a show dog is not too much fun.
I guess there are a few benefits, though— you won’t become a casualty of BobBarker’s ruthless campaign against thereproductive organs of pets, and you won’tbe subjected to bland and low quality dogfoods. But I don’t think most of the dogswould be willing to accept all the responsi-bility that accompanies such a high-pres-sure life. Most humans are unable to prop-erly walk around looking well-groomedand then sit still for a few minutes, so howcan dogs have such high expectation lev-els? Where is PETA when you need them?I’m sure the dead piece of fur that Gisele
BY KEELY THARPOn Feb. 8, the women’s track and fieldteam scored 162 points en route to itsthird place finish at the University ofRhode Island’s seven-team invitational.The team was out in full force this week-end, capturing top spots in several events.
“In general, we were aiming to set amore competitive tone this weekend,”said Captain Julia Devanthery ’04.
Starting the track events was the racefor the title of quickest woman. JaylonWhite ’05 finished fourth and LaurenLinder ’04 finished seventh in the 55-meter dash. White also took sixth place inthe 200-meter dash. Soon afterwards,Julia Stevenson ’04, leading from start tofinish, won the 400-meter dash. KellyPowell ’06 and Melissa Tremblay ’04 alsocompeted in the 400, placing fourth andseventh, respectively.
Continuing the impressive finisheswere a sweeping of places one throughfour in the 800-meter dash. The accom-plished women were Katherine Kosub ’04in first, Kate Cushing ’04 in second, CaciCambruzzi ’04 in third and Annie Hatch’06 in fourth. Also scoring in the fourthplace position was Julie Komosinski ’05 inthe 1000-meter run.
Nora Sullivan ’06 finished second andAnna Willard ’06 finished fifth in the one-mile run. Rachel Kitson ’05 and AnyaDavidson ’06 completed their 3000-meterruns in fourth and fifth places.Heptathletes Katie Rowinski ’04 and KimFogarty ’03 placed second and sixth in the55-meter hurdles, with Yleana Roman ’06completing the scoring in that event.Rowinski also high jumped 1.7 meters toqualify for the ECAC meet.
On the field, Ashley Wall ’05 placed
fourth in the high jump. Lauren Contursi’03 finished in her usual position of num-ber one in the pole vault. Emily Capehart’06 took third place in the long jump, andBrittany Grovey ’06 took third place in thetriple jump. Jill Lynch ’05 finished in sec-ond in the shot put. Rachelle Seibolt ’04
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The women’s indoor track team will split up this weekend,with some members competingat the Armory Collegiate Meet in N.Y.and others at the Fast Track Invitational in Boston.
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All-around effort leads women’s trackto third-place finish in URI Invitational
Women’s tennis blastsSyracuse 6-1 in opener
BY JOANNA GROSSMANThe men’s indoor track and fieldteam came away from last week-end’s meet at the University ofRhode Island with a big win, beatinga field of eight with a score of 158.5.The win was a big confidence boost-er with just two weeks to go until theHeptagonal Championships atDartmouth.
“Overall this was a good meet,”said Head Coach Robert Johnson.“We went in trying to win, and weaccomplished that goal.”
With the team focused on win-ning the meet, the times, distancesand heights were not as importantas the places and points that werescored.
“This was more about places, andwe had a lot of top places, but alsohad some very good performances”Johnson said.
The distance squad had somegood performances across theboard. One standout performancewas Jon Andruchow ’04 in the 800-meter run. He finished second witha time of 1:54.90, a personal recordfor an indoor track.
“I haven’t been racing well, butmy training recently has been goingwell, and I’ve just been waiting forthings to click and they finally did,”Andruchow said.
“This was his best race since he’sbeen at Brown,” said men’s DistanceCoach John Gregorek. “He racedreally aggressively, and had a reallystrong performance.”
In the 1,000-meter runBrunonians came away with thesecond and third places. Tri-CaptainChad Buechel ’03 finished second
Track wins URIInvitational
BY BRETT ZARDAThe women’s tennis team started itsspring season last weekend with a con-vincing 6-1 victory over Syracuse.Inclement weather forced the postpone-ment of the second scheduled match ofthe weekend vs. Temple.
The Bears jumped out early againstthe Orangemen, earning the doublespoint by taking two of the three matches.Kerry Meath ’05 and Alex Arlak ’05 won atnumber one doubles, while KimberlySinger ’06 teamed with Mariana Lee ’06to earn an easy victory at the numberthree position.
The Bears rode the momentum fromthe doubles point and coasted throughthe singles matches dropping only onematch. Securing their first victory of theseason in impressive fashion was animportant early step for the Bears.
Gaining confidence early in the seasonwill be paramount to Brown’s overall suc-cess this spring. With Co-CaptainCaroline Casey ’03 as the only senior,these early matches provide invaluableexperience before entering the difficultIvy League stretch, Casey said.
“We have a lot of matches betweennow and the Ivy League season,” Caseysaid. “We have a lot of freshmen in thelineup right now and hopefully they’lladjust pretty well.”
Despite the influx of youth, the Bearsare strong top to bottom and have yet to
settle on a permanent lineup.“We have a really, really even team so
our lineup is probably going to changearound a lot during the course of theyear,” Meath said. “It’s just because anyone of us can beat the other one on anygiven day.”
That parity will force all 11 women tobe constantly match-ready, while pro-moting natural competition within theteam, Casey said.
Effectively balancing that healthycompetition with such a young squadfurther emphasizes the importance ofestablishing team unity. With severalupperclassmen not returning to thisyear’s squad, a period of adjustment isinevitable.
“It’s definitely been a change and Ithink that in the fall season we struggledwith it a little since we weren’t playingmany matches,” Casey said. “But themore matches we play the closer theteam seems to be getting. I think thatsince we’ve been back for spring the teamdynamic has improved.”
The Bears next face the University ofMassachusetts on Feb. 22 followed by themake-up match against Temple on Feb.23. Both matches will be played at thePizzitola Sports Center.
Sports staff writer Brett Zarda GS covers thewomen’s tennis team. He can be reached [email protected].
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